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| Good morning, Daily Briefing readers. Despite a curfew, protesters and police continued to clash Monday night in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis. Meanwhile, just miles away, the Derek Chauvin trial is expected to enter a new phase. |
| Steve and Jane are here with Tuesday's news. |
| Let's get started with some news items that people are talking about this morning. |
| ⚖ A federal judge said Monday he was "inclined" to order that Jack Wade Whitton, a Jan. 6 Capitol riot suspect, remain in detention after prosecutors presented video footage of him dragging a police officer down the steps of the Capitol and physically assaulting officers. |
| ⚖ President Joe Biden will tap Christine Wormuth to become the secretary of the Army in the Department of Defense, a first for a woman. |
| 🏆 In a statement supporting the inclusion of transgender athletes in sports, the NCAA Board of Governors warned state lawmakers that actions to the contrary could result in the loss of championship games and events. |
| 🌎 New this morning: Citing "salmon runs (that) are at the brink of extinction," the Snake River in the Pacific Northwest is the nation's most endangered river of 2021, according to a report by the environmental advocacy group American Rivers. |
| 🎶 Monday's episode of "American Idol" included a surprise development, when guest judge Paula Abdul returned to the show she was on for eight seasons. But the bigger surprise was the decision of 20-year-old Wyatt Pike to leave the competition. Meanwhile, "The Voice" featured a battle that left coach Nick Jonas in quite the pickle: Jonas pitted Bradley Sinclair, 22, against Rachel Mac, 16, and felt like "an idiot" after it was over. |
| 😊Your morning smile:😊 Animal lovers around the world are asking to adopt Prancer the 2-year-old Chihuahua after his foster mom, Tyfanee Fortuna, shared a shockingly honest review of his personality traits that include hating men, children and other animals . "Every day we live in the grips of the demonic Chihuahua hellscape he has created in our home," Fortuna wrote on Facebook. |
| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, listen for the latest from Minneapolis after the shooting of Daunte Wright. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
| Here's what's happening today: |
Protests go on despite curfew after fatal shooting of Daunte Wright |
| Tensions between protesters and police intensified for the second night in a row Monday after a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer – who authorities say apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun – fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop Sunday. Protesters stayed out despite Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz imposing a curfew that stretched to 6 a.m. Tuesday for three counties, which included the city of Brooklyn Center, a Minneapolis suburb about 10 miles from where George Floyd died in police custody last May. About 90 minutes after the curfew deadline, police in Brooklyn Center began firing gas canisters and flash-bang grenades in an attempt to drive protesters away. Some protesters, wearing gas masks, picked up smoke canisters and threw them back toward police. Early Tuesday, a Minnesota State Patrol official said 40 people were arrested at the Brooklyn Center protest. Wright was shot once and died after the traffic stop, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Monday. Gannon described the shooting death as "an accidental discharge." Protests also occurred Monday night in New York City; Portland, Oregon and Louisville, Kentucky. |
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Defense expected to begin calling witnesses in Chauvin murder trial |
| For the first time, jurors are expected to hear from witnesses testifying for the defense in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged in George Floyd's death. As Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill wrapped up court Monday, he told jurors "we're getting close to the end" of the trial. He said he expects the defense to finish its evidence by the end of the week, with closing arguments expected Monday. So far, there have been 38 witnesses called to the stand, all by the prosecution. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's death in police custody on May 25, 2020. |
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What else people are reading: |
| 🔵 A Virginia police officer accused of pepper-spraying a Black and Latino military officer and forcing him to the ground during a traffic stop in December has been fired, a Town of Windsor official said. |
| 🔵 A cousin of 5-year-old Ariel Young said her family is glad former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid has "finally" been charged with driving while intoxicated after the February accident that left the girl severely injured. But Tiffany Verhulst also said the family "(doesn't) believe the charges are fair or harsh enough." |
| 🔵 Alissa Piro, a high school English teacher in California, was caught on Zoom yelling at students over parents' complaints on virtual instruction and desires to return to in-person classes. |
| 🔵 New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman announced his retirement from football in a video posted to his Twitter account. Edelman, 34, played all 11 of his NFL seasons in New England and was instrumental in helping the Patriots win three Super Bowl championships. |
| 🔵 Grimes, the Canadian singer and girlfriend of billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, took to Instagram to show off her new back tattoos, which featured an intricate web of skin-colored lines representing "alien scars." |
| 🔵 Longtime Major League Baseball umpire Joe West was awarded $500,000 plus interest by the New York Supreme Court in his defamation lawsuit against former player Paul Lo Duca. |
Police officer slain in Capitol attack to lie in honor |
| U.S. Capitol Police Officer William Evans, who died after the April 2 attack at the U.S. Capitol, will lie in honor Tuesday in the Capitol rotunda. An 18-year member of the force, Evans was killed when a 25-year-old man rammed his vehicle into a barricade shielding the Capitol's north side. Officers shot the suspect, who later died at a hospital. Evans will be the second USCP officer to lie in honor this year after Brian Sicknick, who died after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Only a few other private citizens have lain in honor, including two other Capitol Police officers who died in the line of duty in 1998. |
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Newsmakers in their own words: Reaction to Daunte Wright's death |
| "Maybe if the police weren't so quick to draw any weapon, then maybe people wouldn't die because of a mix-up. Don't you find it amazing that cops think everything is a gun, except their own gun? If you have a cellphone in your hand – 'Oh, that's a gun.' If you're holding a wallet, 'Oh that's a gun.' Their own gun? No, not a gun." |
| –Trevor Noah, host of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," addressed the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minnesota during a segment on Monday's episode. |
| Actress Kerry Washington, actor Ray Fisher and rapper/actor Common also were among the celebrities who reacted to Wright's death on social media. |
Tennessee high school will be closed after student killed in shooting |
| Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday in the aftermath of a shooting involving a teenage boy who was pronounced dead at the scene Monday afternoon. The school will not hold classes, virtually or in-person. In an email to families, principal Nathan Langlois said the school building will be open Tuesday with counselors available to students. Police responded to a call Monday that an armed student was holed up in a school bathroom. When officers entered the bathroom, the student fired at them, striking one officer, and was hit and killed by return fire from police, authorities said. Knoxville Police Chief Eve Thomas said the officer who was shot was in serious condition and underwent surgery Monday night. |
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John Boehner takes current-day GOP to task in new memoir |
| Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was "Lucifer in the flesh." Freedom Caucus members were "political terrorists" and "far-right knuckleheads." Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner takes no prisoners in "On the House: A Washington Memoir," published Tuesday by St. Martin's Press. The book is an extraordinary rebuke of the current-day GOP , leveled by one of the party's most senior figures. "I wasn't going to write some typical Washington walk," he told USA TODAY. Boehner's prime targets are Republican officials he said are more interested in praise on Fox News than in governing. He also blasts former President Donald Trump, whom he says "abused" his loyal followers by continuing to lie about the presidential election he lost. |
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